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Author Topic: Kobolds killed my adventurer, but I found something out from how they did it.  (Read 1584 times)

GreatWyrmGold

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Background: Demigod min/maxed naga adventurer (from NW_Kohaku's mod...thingy), entered a kobold cave. She hacked her way through the entire cave and decided to check in the caverns for more treasure.

It turns out that the 100-odd kobolds in the upper levels of the cave were maybe half of the kobold living there. I dropped my pack, heavy with goods and kobold corpses (I was planning on becoming a necromancer), and watched my speed go up to almost double its previous value, before slaughtering several more. Eventually, I collapsed from exhaustion, which I knew was Bad. Then I fell unconscious from over-exertion. Then the game began calculating stuff for a few minutes.

After that, I was dead, having suffocated. A couple pages in, I noticed something which I thought was interesting. A couple pages later, I decided to take a screenshot of it.

That's right. Crowns can deflect blows. Oh, and either I woke up a few times or you can suffocate from headshots. But the crown part is the important one.

The moral: When in adventurer mode, find a steel crown to put atop your helm for added protection. Maybe I'll try seeing if other jewelry can protect other body parts, but it'll be difficult to get enemies to target fingers/etc, so maybe not.
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[GreatWyrmGold] gets a little crown. May it forever be his mark of Cain; let no one argue pointless subjects with him lest they receive the same.

Xotano

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helm and mask with a lot of hoods is possibly the best defense for your head you can get, helm and 2 caps is good too but has no face protection.
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300 human/elf/dwarf/goblin/kobold bodies 20 random animal/fish/bird bodies and 3 dragon bodies all in one backpack. fun stuff.

GreatWyrmGold

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Add a crown on top of that. Bingo! Occasional deflection via crown!
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Chilton

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Headshots will Damage the Spine, restricting Breathing.
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Infinite bling shall become the new shield wall

NonconsensualSurgery

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Infinite bling shall become the new shield wall

Say, do other kinds of jewelry ever deflect attacks?

I feel the need to take this to its logical extreme, if possible.
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